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National Flood Risk
Management
Flood Risk Management Summit
Cambridge, Maryland
MG Bo Temple
Deputy Commanding General
For Civil and Emergency Operations
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
13 July 2009
Major Corps Initiatives
• Flood Risk Management
Program
• Levee Safety Program
• National Committee on
Levee Safety
• International Efforts
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Interagency Levee Task Force
•Identification of regional
partners
•Facilitated comprehensive
regional approach to flood
risk management and
recovery
•Establishment of
interagency partnerships
(Federal / State)
•Explore non-structural
solutions and other flood risk
management opportunities
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States
Building codes,
emergency services,
contingency response,
regulatory, general
plans, WRM
Locals
Land use planning,
evacuations, flood
fighting, O&M
FEMA
NFIP, Risk MAP,
Mitigation,
Disaster Response
Federal
OMB, DOI,
EPA, NOAA,
NRCS, USBR,
HUD, USDS,
DHS, NWS,
USGS
*IFRMC, Silver Jackets,
FPMS/PAS, ILTF, PL84-99,
Dam & Levee Safety, R&D, Critical
Infrastructure, CERB, IWR,
Emergency Response, Coastal, CAP
Roundtable Collaboration, PAO,
International, Planning, FRM Business Line,
FRM PCX, Regulatory, Environmental, Federal
Task Force, E011988, Unified National Plan.
Potential Future Direction
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Integrated Water
Resources
Management
Sustainable Solutions
to America’s Water
Resource Needs
Climate Change
Committee on the
Marine Transportation
System (CMTS)
Future Direction
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